Hao Yan
About Me
I am a second-year Ph.D. student in the Department of Computer Science and GMU NLP Group at George Mason University, advised by Prof. Ziyu Yao.
My research interest is in Natural Language Processing, with a focus on human-AI interaction via natural language. The goal of my research is to facilitate effective and seamless collaboration between humans and artificial intelligence systems including developing interfaces and interaction methods that allow humans to communicate their goals and intentions to AI systems, and receive understandable and desirable responses in return. This also includes studying arising research questions such as ethical issues in machine generations and reinforcement learning with human feedback.
Before my Ph.D. study, I obtained my master’s degree in Computer Science from George Mason University in 2020 and my bachelor’s degree in Electronic and Information Engineering from Fujian Normal University in 2017.
In my spare time. I enjoy engaging in various indoor/outdoor activities such as basketball, badminton, swimming, visiting the gym, and hiking. In addition, I really enjoy tasting delicious foods and cooking by myself.
Research Interests
- Human-AI Interaction
- Semantic Parsing
- Question Answering
- Text Generation
News
- [June. 2023] I will serve as a student volunteer at ACL 2023.
- [May. 2023] I was granted the “Graduate Student Travel Fund (GSTF)” from GMU.
- [May. 2023] Our paper “Learning to Simulate Natural Language Feedback for Interactive Semantic Parsing” is accepted to ACL 2023.
Publications
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The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023.
Experiences
May. 2021 - current: Graduate Research Assistant, George Mason University Aug. 2020 - May. 2021: Graduate Teaching Assistant, George Mason University Feb. 2020 - Aug. 2021: Front-end Developer, Bright Sky Tech Inc Jan. 2020 - Dec. 2020: Graduate Teaching Assistant, George Mason University
Services
Studnet Volunteer
The 61st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2023
Awards
- Graduate Student Travel Fund, GMU, 2023
- Distinguished GTA Award, Department of CS, GMU, 2022
- Graduate Students Poster Award (Honorable Mention), GMU, 2022
- Outstanding GTA Award, Department of CS, GMU, 2020, 2021
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